Ultrasonic cleaners

[7th day]

Anyone used an ultrasonic cleaner for carbs? Someone on another forum claimed it worked much better than using Berrymans Chem Dip but I'm skeptical. They used it with 50-50 mix of Simple Green.

[Mark whiz]

I use a small ultrasonic cleaner and the 50/50 Simple Green solution to clean bits and pieces of my black powder firearms and it works great. For carbs, you might need a solution that is more able to break up petro-gunk.

[7th day]

Ultrasonic cleaners

What brand and model of cleaner do you have? Harbor Freight has a heavy duty for $160 made in China of course.

[spchips]

I would like to hear more on these. I was talking to a supplier of commercial grade units, but the smallest one that would take a whole rack was a couple grand. They had testimonials where the the carb shop would just pull the bowls and toss the whole thing in. since it didn't damage rubber the diaphrams could stay where they were.

maybe for personal use one that can take a single carb would make more sense.

[andrewclaycomb]

George Lesho of WGcarbs.com claims to use the ultrasonic method, and when I got them back they looked brand new. They didn't turn dark like the carb dip method usually produces.

[oldschoolorange]

I have never used an ultrasonic cleaner on carbs, who makes a decent personal use one?

[RJz1100E]

We've got a good sized one at work manufactured by Blue Wave Ultrasonics. It cost the company $10K. I guess it holds about 40 gallons of solution. We use it to clean the calibrators that are used for sizing extruded pvc fence profiles. The calibrators are built from machined/polished stainless steel and aluminum and they have vacuum and water cooling ports running through them and brass fittings all of which get plugged up with wax and junk during the extrusion process. The ultrasonic gets them looking like new again in about an hour. Solution is just water and some kind of soap powder called Dirl-Lum 603. Temp is about 200 degrees.
Now that you guys mention this, it seems that it would probably do a nice job on a bank of carbs.

[gaillarry]

I use a small unit made for jewellery cleaning. Cost $25. Great for jets, needles and smaller parts. It has a timer for 20mins and I use carb cleaner.

[mottyl]

I user one at work for cleaning electronic parts. It works very well but it cost around $200 and would not hold a complete carb.
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[Junkie]

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95563

think that would work? obviously not a full rack but it should hold 1 with no problem

[Mario Padilla]

Ultrasonic cleaner

Used an ultrasonic cleaner on my 250 ninja carbs, they came out as good as new and the bike now runs like a champ. Unfortunately, a cleaner big enough to take a rack of 4 carbs is very expensive. My cleaner was just big enough to handle the twin carbs without having to take them off the rack.

[Mark whiz]

Yeah I got one from Harbor Freight in the $25 to $30 range. Wal Mart sells a cheap SONIC cleaner in their jewelry Dept, but it's not as good.

[rpickle]

My latest carb clean I boiled them. A little bit of lemon juice and distilled water. Came out very nice. Only cost was a 5 qt. sauce pan.

Got the idea from someone here.

Just a thought.

Rick